Research Group

Peter Blanchard

Graduate Student

2013-

Currently my work focuses on the study of long gamma ray bursts and their host galaxies. Using high resolution imaging from HST we can pinpoint the precise locations where the GRBs occurred within their hosts. This allows us to study the environments...

Jordan Bock

Undergraduate student; Harvard University; 3rd-year

2009

Short GRBs in galaxy clusters

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Ryan Chornock

Postdoctoral Fellow

2009-2014

Currently an Assistant Professor at Ohio University

I am interested in the many transient and time-variable objects which populate our universe. Most of my work has centered on energetic cosmic explosions in the form of supernovae and gamma-ray bursts. I am currently heavily involved in Pan-STARRS, which...

Bejamin Cook

Undergraduate Student; Princeton; 3rd-year

2013

Stellar X-ray rotation-activity relation

Philip Cowperthwaite

Graduate Student

2013-

I am a first­year graduate student at Harvard University. I did my undergraduate work at the University of Maryland College Park where I worked on various problems in high­ energy astrophysics. My current project involves digging into our LIGO "dry­-run"...

Ian Czekala

Graduate Student

2010-12

Low-luminosity optical transients

Maria Drout

Graduate Student

2014-

Wen-fai Fong

Graduate Student

2008-2014

Currently an Einstein Fellow at University of Arizona

I study short-duration gamma-ray bursts and their progenitors. In particular, I use space- and ground-based observations of both the galaxies which host these events, as well as their multi-wavelength afterglows, to uncover information about the...

Tova Holmes

Undergraduate Student; Harvard University; 4th-year

2011

GRB/SN connection

Caroline Huang

Undergraduate student; Harvard University; 3rd-year

2011

GRB host galaxies at z>2

Ethan Kruse

Undergraduate student; Harvard University; 1st-year

2009

Hα variability in SDSS M dwarfs

Tanmoy Laskar

Graduate Student

2009-

I currently study the distant host galaxies of long-duration gamma-ray bursts, though my interests encompass everything under the Sun - and beyond. An avid amateur astronomer, I've built my own radio and optical telescopes. When not at my desk, I can be...